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James Salter
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James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the publication of his first novel. After a brief career in writing and film directing, in 1979 Salter published the novel Solo Faces. He won numerous awards for his works, including belated recognition of works originally criticized at the time of their publication. Michael Dirda of the Washington Post is reported to have said that with a single sentence, in an introduction to the final interview he gave before his death, Guernica described Salter as having a good claim to being the greatest living American novelist. On June 10,1925 Salter was born and named James Arnold Horowitz, the son of Mildred Scheff and George Horowitz, a real estate broker and businessman. He attended P. S.6, the Horace Mann School, as did his father, Horowitz attended West Point during a world war, when class size was greatly increased and the curriculum drastically shortened. Graduated in 1945 after just three years, Horowitz ranked 49th in general merit in his class of 852 and he completed flight training during his first class year, with primary flight training at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and advanced training at Stewart Field, New York. Possibly as a result, he was assigned to training in B-25s until February 1946. He received his first unit assignment with the 6th Troop Carrier Squadron, stationed at Nielson Field, the Philippines, Naha Air Base, Okinawa and he was promoted to 1st lieutenant in January 1947. Horowitz was transferred in September 1947 to Hickam AFB, Hawaii, then entered post-graduate studies at Georgetown University in August 1948, receiving his masters degree in January 1950. He was assigned to the headquarters of the Tactical Air Command at Langley AFB, Virginia, in March 1950 and he arrived in Korea in February 1952 after transition training in the F-86 Sabre with the 75th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine. He was assigned to the 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing and he flew more than 100 combat missions between February 12 and August 6,1952 and was credited with a MiG-15 victory on July 4,1952. He used his Korean experience for his first novel, The Hunters, the movie version of The Hunters was honored with acclaim for its powerful performances, moving plot, and realistic portrayal of the Korean War. In his off-duty time he worked on his fiction, completing a manuscript that eventually was rejected by publishers, in total, he had served twelve years in the U. S. Air Force, the last six as a fighter pilot. His 1961 novel The Arm of Flesh drew on his experiences flying with the 36th Fighter-Day Wing at Bitburg Air Base, Germany, an extensively-revised version of the novel was reissued in 2000 as Cassada. Salter however, later disdained both of his Air Force novels as products of youth not meriting much attention. After several years in the Air Force Reserve, he severed his military connection completely in 1961 by resigning his commission after his unit was called up to duty for the Berlin Crisis

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Irwin Shaw
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Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. Though Shaws work received critical acclaim, the success of his commercial fiction ultimately diminished his literary reputation. Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City and his parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw, became a noted Hollywood producer and writer, shortly after Irwins birth, the Shamforoffs moved to Brooklyn. Irwin changed his surname upon entering college and he spent most of his youth in Brooklyn, where he graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934. Shaw died in Davos, Switzerland on May 16,1984, aged 71, Shaw began screenwriting in 1935 at the age of 21, and scripted for several radio shows, including Dick Tracy, The Gumps and Studio One. His play Quiet City, directed by Elia Kazan and with music by Aaron Copland. During the 1940s, Shaw wrote for a number of films, including The Talk of the Town, The Commandos Strike at Dawn and they had one son, Adam Shaw, born in 1950, himself a writer of magazine articles and non-fiction. Shaw enlisted in the U. S. Army and was a warrant officer during World War II, the Young Lions, Shaws first novel, was published in 1948. Based on his experiences in Europe during the war, the novel was successful and was adapted into a 1958 film. Shaw was not happy with the film, Shaws second novel, The Troubled Air, chronicling the rise of McCarthyism, was published in 1951. Accused of being a communist by the Red Channels publication, Shaw was placed on the Hollywood blacklist by the studio bosses. In 1951 he left the United States and went to Europe and he later claimed that the blacklist only glancingly bruised his career. During the 1950s he wrote several screenplays, including Desire Under the Elms. While living in Europe, Shaw wrote more bestselling books, notably Lucy Crown, Two Weeks in Another Town, Rich Man, Poor Man, Rich Man, Poor Man was adapted into a highly successful ABC television miniseries in 1976. His novel The Top of the Hill was made into a TV movie about the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980, starring Wayne Rogers, Adrienne Barbeau and his last two novels were Bread Upon the Waters and Acceptable Losses. Among his noted short stories are, Sailor Off The Bremen, The Eighty-Yard Run, three of his stories were dramatized for the PBS series Great Performances. This production was released on DVD in 2002 by Kultur Video, in 1950, Shaw wrote a book on Israel with photos by Robert Capa named Report on Israel

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Charlotte Rampling
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Tessa Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress, model and chanteuse, known for her work in European arthouse films in three languages, English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and she was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, most notably during this time in Luchino Viscontis The Damned and Liliana Cavanis The Night Porter. She went on to star in Zardoz, Farewell, My Lovely, Woody Allens Stardust Memories, opposite Paul Newman in The Verdict, Long Live Life, Max, Mon Amour, Angel Heart and The Wings of the Dove. In 2002 she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, in the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in his films Under the Sand, Swimming Pool and Angel. On television, she is known for her role as Evelyn Vogel in Dexter, in 2012 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, both for her performance in the miniseries Restless. Other television roles include work in Broadchurch and London Spy, for the latter of which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a four-time César Award nominee, she received an Honorary César in 2001 and Frances Legion of Honour in 2002. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, in 2015, she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled Qui Je Suis, or Who I Am. She later worked on an English translation, which was due to be published in March 2017, Rampling was born in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne, a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist and British Army officer. She grew up and spent most of her childhood in Gibraltar, France and she attended Académie Jeanne dArc in Versailles and St. Hildas School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. She had one sister, Sarah, who committed suicide in 1966 and she and Sarah had had a close relationship, and they had performed in a cabaret act together during their teenage years. She began her career as a model and first appeared in a Cadbury advertisement and she was noticed by a casting agent while walking down a street in London. Her first screen appearance, which was uncredited, was as a skier in Richard Lesters film The Knack. She also appeared as an extra in the Beatles film A Hard Days Night, in 1965, she was cast in the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl and was given a role by John Boulting in the comedy Rotten to the Core. In 1967, she starred opposite Yul Brynner in the adventure film The Long Duel and she also appeared alongside Franco Nero in the Italian film Sardinia Kidnapped, directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi. On television, Rampling played the gunfighter Hana Wilde in The Superlative Seven, after this, her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema. Despite an early flurry of success, she told The Independent and it was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that. Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were taking so many drugs they wouldnt know it anyway, in 1969, in Luchino Viscontis The Damned, she played a young wife sent to a Nazi concentration camp

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Sam Waterston
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Samuel Atkinson Sam Waterston is an American actor, producer and director. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Emmy awards, having starred in over eighty film and he has also starred in numerous stage productions. AllMovie historian Hal Erickson characterized Waterston as having cultivated a following with his quietly charismatic. Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012, Waterston, the third of four siblings, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker, a painter, was of English ancestry. His father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland, Waterston attended both the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts, where his father taught, and the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on a scholarship in 1958, after graduating from Yale, he attended the Clinton Playhouse for several months. Waterston also attended the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop, the classically trained Waterston has numerous stage credits to his name. For example, he played an award-winning Benedick in Joseph Papps production of William Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and he continues live theater work during the summers, often seen acting at places like Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. Waterston made his debut in 1965s The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean. He starred as Tom in a 1973 television film adaptation of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, the film also featured Michael Moriarty, whom Waterston later replaced as the Executive Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order. One of his roles was opposite Jeff Bridges in the western comedy Rancho Deluxe in 1975. Other films include Savages, The Great Gatsby, Journey Into Fear, Capricorn One, Heavens Gate, Hopscotch, in 1985, he co-starred in Robert Prestons final television film with Mary Tyler Moore, Finnegan Begin Again. Also with Moore, Waterston played the role in Lincoln. Other roles include Assault at West Point with Samuel L. Jackson, Mindwalk, The Man in the Moon, Waterston is a six-time Emmy Award nominee, as well as a winner of the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Aside from Law & Order, other roles include D. A. Forrest Bedford in Ill Fly Away. He also had a role in an episode segment on the TV series Amazing Stories called Mirror Mirror. In 1994, Waterston debuted as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy in the season of the television series Law & Order

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Pascale Roberts
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Pascale Roberts is a French film and television actress. She is a César Award nominee, in 1957, she married Pierre Mondy but they divorced a few years later. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film, pascale Roberts at the Internet Movie Database